Good advice, but where can one get books which are in a common, DRM-free format and sold by one price for the whole world?

Project Gutenberg is nice, but after a while you might want to read something a bit more recent/fresh. And they don't even have all of Sherlock Holmes available, for legal reasons. I know, I tried.


Good point.
I haven't had yet time to download any of the Free Bundle games, to begin with. So something to look forward to, if there's no places left to buy games from.

You mean the Humble Store. The Bundles & Widgets not affected so far.

These smart humble ****** are even worse then GOG. With introducing their "Humble pricing" the reduced also the payment options. Which means the Humble Store is dead for me now. I cannot buy anything even if I want to. Because the payment options I have used so far are not available for payments in Euro's. Very well done! WOOOOOOHOOOOO!

GamersGate vs GOG

Expendable $9.99 / $5.99
Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising $9.99 / $5.99

DRM-free ebook sources

Just over the weekend I bought a ton of titles from Baen Ebooks. The collected works of William Hope Hodgson and Clark Ashton Smith, plus books by Brian Aldiss, Harlan Ellison, John Brunner, and others.

DRM-free ebooks are a bigger priority for me than DRM-free games, as my book consumption level is far higher.

EDIT: This is a nice handy list to have as well.

vs ShinyLoot: Both $4.99 :)

And ShinyLoot has gifting, too.

I agree, it was foolish of me to trust them. That doesn't change the situation that they spent a long time pretty much promoting themselves as some gaming nirvana. It was indeed foolish for me to believe their marketing BS. Perhaps that's why I'm so hurt, because I was fooled.

Well, they've had an overwhelmingly negative reponse from some proportion of their userbase, but I've no idea how big or small it really is. Perhaps they should run a poll?
I've bought a few things from Shinyloot and they seem pretty great.

Didn't check that one .

They don't have the catalogue or market muscle of GOG, but they are coming along. Momo and I are early adopters and members of the secret fan club on the site, and their chief executive is very forthcoming about the business. They are certainly making an effort to be an up-and-coming DRM-free/DRM-lite vendor. And they are good about sending emails when a game has been updated, which is an important service to me.

On Steam, Mac Store and so on you pay the same prices like here, but the games all have DRM. It doesn't make any sense to run to more worse stores for getting the same games with same prices DRMed. You have still have the choice if you buy regional priced games or not.

Pretty good selection of Arthur Conan Doyle , [url=http://www.digilibraries.com/author/2250/Doyle_Arthur_Conan/]here, and here.

It is a little more complicaterd. Humble Store uses reginal prices, but Humble Bundles and Humble Widgets uses flat global prices (US$).

You're right. My issue is confidence with some of those stores though. GOG.com promises all of their titles to be 100% DRM-free. Most other stores, like GamersGate, have a mix and they don't make any promises. Even some of the games available on Steam are DRM-free, but I'm not willing to risk my money to find out if a game truly is DRM-free or not. Call it laziness if you want, but I appreciate not having to spend my time going through a forum and reading dozens of comments to try to make sure a game doesn't have some form of DRM/copy-protection that will cause artificial problems for me. Some of the installers at other stores are not as handy as GOG.com's either, IMO.

It's also about quality control for me. Desura does so much right and I wish they would become a bigger player but they really need more quality control. I appreciate that GOG.com takes care of their products before they release them, even if that means there is less quantity of games available. Even when they might goof, e.g. the copy-protection problems in Moto Racer 2, they tried their best to make it right with the people who bought it and then took it off the store for quality control reasons so no one else could buy it until they worked out a solution to the problem and re-released it. I'm confident in GOG.com's stamp of approval.

So yeah, there are other legal ways to get DRM-free games but GOG.com is still my preferred store. Maybe DotEmu and ShinyLoot will become the stores I am most comfortable purchasing from if GOG.com wants to try to be like Steam, but right now that's not the case for me anyway.

Add me to the list, I do rather like them so far. Bought the DROD games there before they came out here.

Nice! Welcome, fellow Looter. :D

They had a kickass Xmas sale last year too. That was the backbone of my Santastar giveaway.